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New year special
January 2023

Happy New Year from all the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (NIHR ARCs)!

In this special edition January newsletter, we look back at the top ARC stories from last year. We've rounded up the 22 most popular (clicked-on) newsletter stories from 2022 below, for your enjoyment.

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1 / Tools to help integrate an intersectional equity lens into research 
Focus On Research and Equity (FOR EQUITY) is a web-based platform providing tools to help make research evidence more relevant for action to reduce social and health inequalities. It is a joint NIHR School for Public Health Research and ARC North West Coast resource.
See the toolkit
2 / Consequences of patients accessing their health records
Giving patients online access to their GP health records has unintended consequences that can limit its usefulness, an ARC West and University of Bristol study has found.
Read more
3 / Understanding the needs of people living alone with dementia
A study supported by ARC North Thames aims to better understand the needs of people living alone with dementia. It explores how they contact and access social care services and how these services can be improved.
Read more
4 / Tackling health inequality in ethnic minority communities
Research funded by ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex and published in BMJ Open provides insight into how health information can be optimised for ethnic minority groups in the UK.
Read the paper
5 / How common is patient and public involvement in health research?
ARC South West Peninsula has published one of BMJ Open’s most impactful papers of 2022, revealing the frequency of patient and public involvement in health research studies.
Read more
6 / Tackling racism in health research
The BMJ paper ‘Tackling racism in UK health research’ from researchers at ARCs Northwest London and South London is the first ever systematic analysis of racism, discrimination and inequality in UK health research. It provides not only insights but potential solutions.
Read more
7 / NHS staff share experiences of discrimination during the pandemic 
A qualitative ARC South London study found ethnicity, social class, privilege, 'Britishness', and even training pedigree to be factors in discrimination amongst NHS staff.  
Read more
8 / Report: Effectiveness of maternal mental health services 
A national network of ARC maternity and perinatal mental health researchers led by ARC South London are studying the implementation of maternal mental health services.
Read the report
9 / Mental health 'thermometers'
ARC East of England has been developing innovative computerised platforms that aim to measure mental health precisely and in real-time, akin to 'digital thermometers for the mind'. 
Read more
10 / Challenging the way we do public health research
The most common method of measuring a medical treatment is a randomised control trial. However, as this type of study can’t allow for the complexity of health at a population level, ARC West researchers are challenging the way public health research is traditionally done.
Read more & listen
11 / The implementation art gallery
ARC East of England has released an innovative guide, in both a virtual gallery format and as a downloadable PDF, for the community of practice approach in research implementation. 
Visit the virtual gallery
12 / Revealing the digital divide for people with severe mental ill health
An ARC Yorkshire and Humber paper uses the Essential Digital Skills framework to measure the digital divide between the general population and people with severe mental ill health.
Read the paper
13 / Open spaces and a sense of belonging improve wellbeing
ARC North West Coast has produced an NIHR Evidence Alert which is based on the first study to explore relationships between the individual and place factors in the context of wellbeing.
Read more
14 / Levelling up health: Report offers practical guidance on reducing health inequalities
Levelling Up Health: A practical evidence-based framework offers practical suggestions on how to reduce health inequalities at a local and regional level. The guide, produced by ARCs North East and North Cumbria and East of England, is based on decades of research.
Read the report
15 / Supporting staff to improve the lives of those living with dementia in care homes
ARC South West Peninsula’s WHELD study will evaluate a care home training programme that could improve the lives of the most vulnerable people with dementia.
Read more
16 / Implementation and implementation science: the big disconnect
It is a widely accepted tenet of implementation science that the intervention should be comprehensively described. A protocol can allow an investigator to see exactly what the intervention consisted of. But what if there is no protocol? In this blog, ARC West Midlands Director Richard Lilford explores this question. 
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17 / A&E staff may give lower priority to patients from deprived areas
An ARC Greater Manchester study published in the Journal of Health Economics is the first to show evidence of income-related inequalities in access to emergency care in England.
Read more
18 / Improving care for disadvantaged LGBTQIA+ people
An ARC North East and North Cumbria study, led by a practitioner with over 30 years of frontline experience, aims to improve care for disadvantaged LGBTQIA+ people.
Read more
19 / Free online public health courses for NHS staff
ARC Northwest London launched five massive open online courses (MOOCs) to help health and care staff improve their knowledge, skills and understanding of public health research.
Read more
20 / What makes it difficult for patients to ask for help in hospital?
ARC Wessex researchers interviewed patients about their experiences of receiving and negotiating appropriate care in hospital. Their findings are summarised in an evidence brief.
Read more
21 / ARCs go global
Healthcare workers, researchers and students in India and Nepal will be upskilled by researchers from ARC East Midlands in a bid to improve the care of people living with multiple health conditions as part of a £10 million grant.
Read more
22 / Children’s mental health two years after the start of the pandemic
ARC Oxford and Thames Valley supported a survey that looked at child mental health symptoms in March 2020 and then again in March 2022. The findings are available online. 
Read more and download the report
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